Near Falmouth Va. Jan. 10 1863
Dearest,
The express box came this evening with our warm dressing gowns all safe.
I did not find you inside but found an expression of your love in this good coat which cost you so much work + perhaps pain; and it so peculiarly nice and acceptable that I long to pay you in the usual coin. I mean that which don’t go by mail or telegraph. You can hardly tell how comfortable we are this rainy night.
Oliver Otis Howard to his wife, Elizabeth Anne Waite [Oliver Otis Howard Papers]